Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	tool_n	wear_v	work_a	18	3	15.9906	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77979	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070; Thomason E588_1; ESTC R206293	515,009	635

but a vessel of wrath one cut down by the stroke of the Word by wrath this cutting down is like unto that which we find in Luke 14.24 For I say unto that none of those men which were bidden shall tast of my supper and yet these men had stirrings and motions in them Oh! the consideration of this should make sinners to tremble that it is possible for men yea for men professing godliness to be cut down by the Word of wrath and that while they are living and well When a man is cut down now God way be said to cut a man down for vengance when he in judgment determines and secretly resolves against him that no means nor mercies shall do him good now wo to that man against whom God is thus resolved and determined But that none may be discouraged and disheartned by this but awakened know that so long as God still strives with thee and is yet working upon thee by his Word and by his Spirit he hath not yet determined against thee when not thou art not past hope of cure therefore improve the seasons and do not abuse this that hath been said let it support you from dispair but not encourage you to presume Gods Ministers are Gods Tools and as tools by working are Obs 7 worn out so are Gods Ministers worn by working but when the work goes on though the tools are worn the laborer thinks not much so God when he sees people come in and accept of mercy he is content to bear the loss of the wearing of his tools and as men reckon not only for the work done but also for the wearing of the tools and the more precious the tool is the more he accounts of and reckons for the wearing of it so will God also not only reckon for the lives of his servants but also for their strength and the weakening of their bodies by sweating and labor Therefore people had need to look to it that their fruit may answer the cost God is at with them for know that God sets a high price upon His choice servants lives and he will have a valluable consideration for them either in you or upon you and wo be to you if God forceth the price of such blood as theirs is in your ruin Obs 8 Gods Ministers are Gods mouth to His people I have slain them by the words of my Mouth Jer. 15.19 If thou take forth the precious from the vile then shall you be as my mouth And look what is threatned by them is threatned by God and what promise they open and press upon a soul in distress is done by God Himself and it is to be looked upon as God speaking to thee in particular Obs 9 The Word of God is of great power and full of efficacy I have slain them by the words of my mauth The word is like a two-edged sword which smites every way and doth execution every time men hear the Word it is for life or for death Deut. 32.46 47. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testifie unto you this day for it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life it is your life which lies upon it therefore look ye to it so in Revel 11.5 And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouthes and devoureth their enemies Though the witnesses be as Olive branches yet if any wrong them they must be killed by devouring fire Object But if the Word be of such efficacy of a slaying nature why should we hear it Answ We are bound to hear the Word as our duty and when we come we should present our lusts before the edge of the Word were sin presented before it it would only slay the sin and not the person The word flaies either the sin or the soul When the Word comes it will slay the one either your sins or your souls therefore if you would have your souls saved put your sins to death the upright man need not fear comming to the Word but such as are resolved to keep their sins the Word will slay both them and their sins too It follows And thy judgmenes shall break forth Text. as the light that goeth forth Hence observe That Gods judgments while men go on in a Obs 1 prosperous way of sinning lie in the dark they see them not they sin and judgment appears not and therefore they take liberty and embolden themselves in their sins When judgments do come they break out Judgments were Obs 2 working their ruine before they did not sleep Judgements when they come they break out upon sinners as mighty waters being stopt in their course of running when they work over the interruption they run the faster God hath His time to punish sins openly by His judgements as Obs 3 they sin secretly in the dark God will punish openly in the light to make them ashamed God will have His time to convince men by His judgments then Obs 4 their filthiness shall be punished Now Gods judgments may be said to break forth to convince men and as the light three waies How judgment convinces 1. When the same thing threatened in the Word comes to passe 2. When the judgment inflicted is sutable to the sin committed 3. When it is executed by a remarkable hanâ— upon the sinner then that judgement breaks forth upon a man as the light Gods judgments are gradual They break forth as the light Obs 5 not all at once there is the morning light and the mid-day as mercies to the Saints are gradual so judgments upon the wicked are but by degrees dropping at the first There is much to be learned by the breakings out of judgment as the Obs 6 light Isa 26.8 When thy Judgments are abroad the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Mic. 6.9 The man of wisdom shall see thy Name Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Pro. 28.5 Evil men understand not judgment but they that seek the Lord understand all things they shall learn much Examine your hearts by this what you have learned by these judgements that are broken out so cleer upon us that the greatest Atheist in the world may learn this That the Lord He is God as the people cried out in 1 King 18.39 Obs 7 When God sends a Ministry to a people it is to discover the way of God and of His Worship to that people The Lord makes their righteousness to appear and break forth as the light and He will have His way and Worship to appear as cleerly as the light His way shall not be in the dark to them Obs 8 When God brings a powerful Ministry to a people the more powerful and sharp that Ministry hath been if they do not turn the more terrible and sharp shall judgement be upon them Your consciences shall eccho upon this ground in your ears The Lord is righteous in all His waies justly am I

his Message to King Joash and was slain for it and saith the text Acts 7.52 Which of the Prophets have not your fathers murdered But now here is their encouragement against al the il usage the hardships which they meet withal in their work I look upon it saith God as I doing it I had a hand in it therfore certainly God will not let them go unrewarded 1 Sam. 22.23 David said to Abiathar Abide thou with me fear not for he that seeketh thy life seeketh my life but with me thou shalt be in safeguard David was the occasion of Abiathers fathers death Consololation to those Ministers the frieÌ„ds of those that are perished in the Cause of God and because of that what respect had David of him for this and shall not God much more So that have you a friend a brother or a father slain for the Cause of God or in it standing for Him shall not God take his part yea He will Ahimâ—lech was slain accidentally for the Cause of David yet he would deal wel with Abiathar but saith God thy friend was slain standing for Me and owning My Cause he shall lose nothing by it for I will deal well with thee and preserve thee alive for his sake I have slain them That is thus Their Ministry hath been Expos 3 so heavy that it hath even kild them I have followed them on so with work that I have even slain them so that this people cannot say they have not been warned or that they have had no Prophets among them or that their Prophets have been idle that they have had no work to do and certainly it is a good death for a Minister to die preaching Pareus makes much use of this Oportet Episcopum concionantem mori saith he How much more honorable to die in doing Gods work than by coÌ„mitting sinful acts of intemperance uncleanness c. they cannot spend their strength better than in Gods service O let that people who have such Ministers look to it that they bring forth fruit answerable in some proportion to the cost that is bestowed on them and if you take the sense thus then God seems to speak grievingly Oh what shall I do with this people what means hath been used what losses have I sustained by them I have spent many choice Servants among them the lives and strengths of such spirits have bin spent upon them of whom the world was not worthy Oh what shal I do unto such a people Surely such a people enjoying such a Ministry had need look to their profession May not this be said of many Congregations in London Congregations in London hath not God sent many choice spirits among you to do you good and have they effected the end for which they were sent among you If not wo to you God hath a special regard unto this when he shall spend the lives of his choicest and most precious servants and if he have not a considerable vallue and return in peoples fruitfulnes it wil mightily provoke and incense him against them God hath an high esteem of his Ministers lives and strengths they are vallued more than so to be spent and wasted upon unfruitful people who neither care for them nor their Ministry Expos 3 But to come more particularly and according to the genuine sense of the words This slaying refers it self to the people How the word slaies Now the Word slaies in these two respects In its deonouncing of judgement upon men for what the Word threatens it is said to do Jer. 18.7 8. At what instant I speak concerning a Nation or concerning a Kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy and when God promises mercy good he is said to give life and we should look upon them as performing of it In the operation and working of it it hath a mighty efficasie in it for the working impenitent sinners to ruin it is as a twoedged sword which doth execution every way Isa 11.3 It makes men of quick understanding in the fear of God and God is said to consume Antichrist by the breath of his nostrils and by the Word of his mouth 2 Thes 2. the Word is of such a force that sometimes if brings death in a litteral sense to some who withstand and oppose it Ezek. 11.2 Pelatiah gives wicked counsel in the City and the Prophet is commanded to prophesie against him and in the 13. verse we reade that when the Prophet prophesied Pelatiah died so many times God makes the Word so powerful in the mouths of his servants that it strikes men dead presently Gualter Gualter hath this Note from hence that the power of the Word appears in this that it awakens convinces and terrifies the consciences of men so that they go home and make away themselves and become self-murderers and the truth is it is nothing else but the word working powerfully to the ruin and destruction of men Or the words may be taken hyperbolically as men that Expos 4 are oppressed and in misery Oh ye kill me I am not able to endure it you wil be the death of me the Prophets came so close to them that they cryed out Oh they will kill us we are not able to suffer them Luther Luther saith that these words Thou hast slain them by the words of my mouth that is meant the Law by the Law thou hast slain them and by the word Prophets he saith is meant that part of Doctrine which is necessary to be preached to prevent the abuse of the Doctrine of the Gospel which otherwise men would be ready to pervert and he further adds that those men which deny the use of the Law were not fit so much as to be suffered I mention this of Luther the rather because those who deny the use of the Law urge him so strongly for the upholding of them in their way It follows Thy judgments are as the light That is passively thy threatnings Expos 1 upon them or the execution of those threatnings upon them shall break out as the light though they have slain my Prophets and think thereby to free themselves from those judgments which they threatned against them no saith God for all this I will make known my threatnings which they have denounced against them when the Prophet Jeremiah had delivered the message of God to the Princes and the Priests they laid hold on him and said he should surely die Jer. 26.8 Now see what the Prophet saith in the 14 and 15. verses As for me behold I am in your hands do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you but know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall bring innocent blood upon your heads for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you You think perhapâ— that when the Minister is gone his words are gone and there is an end of them no they shall lie upon you

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